08 Friday Nov 2013
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Supremo of Samajwadi Party, has stated that the next government at the centre will be formed by the Third Front. He also stated that the recent convention of 17 parties has put a base for the same.
The question of the third front has started coming up again and again. But what is the reality?
07 Thursday Nov 2013
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PTI
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 6 : In a tactical move
against Congress and BJP, the Left will seek to bring secular
regional parties on a common platform ahead of Lok Sabha
polls, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat said today.
“In the coming Lok Sabha elections, appropriate tactics
should be adopted to defeat Congress and thwart BJP and
strengthen the Left and non-Congress, non-BJP forces,” he
said.
Karat was making a presentation on “the political
situation and the way forward” at a seminar organised by AKG
Study and Research Centre here to mark the Jyoti Basu
centenary year.
Setting out the twin objectives before the Left parties,
he said they should lead the fight against UPA’s “harmful
policies and corruption” and pay equal attention to mobilise
secular-democratic forces to combat the “disruptive politics”
of RSS-BJP combine which is projecting Narendra Modi as its
prime ministerial candidate.
Holding that Congress and BJP are two faces of the ruling class politics, he said there is a need to build an
alternative to their “bourgeois-landlord” polices by rallying
forces like regional parties around alternative policies.
Though most regional parties had no common political and
policy positions and were prone to take stands based on their
interests in the states concerned, CPI(M) had been trying to
draw some of them into joint action on common policy issues,
the CPI(M) leader said.
He said UPA’s return to power in 2009 was largely due to
implementation of several pro-people policies during 2004-09
under the influence of the Left which had supported it then.
In contrast, UPA-II had a ‘disastrous record’ in
aggressively pushing policies of ‘appeasing’ corporates and
big businesses at the “neglect” of vast sections of people, he charged.
At the outset, Karat paid rich tributes to the memory of
Jyoti Basu, describing him as a model Communist who showed how the parliamentary path could be utilised for the benefit of workers and peasants without deviating from the revolutionary path.
06 Wednesday Nov 2013
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India Government seems least concerned with the memory of Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation. The latest news of auctioning of the Charkha and other mementos connected with the Mahatma in a London Auction house, fully confirms this.
The Charkha used by Mahatma Gandhi was sold for 110,000 pounds ( approximately Rs.95 crores). It was the Charkha modified by the Mahatma to fold and take along with him in the journeys during the 1940s.This was mainly used in Yerwada jail. It was one of the weapons of the Mahatma in self reliance for the country.
The Mullock’s Auction House also auctioned many other mementos belonging to Gandhiji, including the Last Will written by him at the Sabarmati Ashramam. This important historical document was sold for 20,000 pounds ( approximately Rs. 17 lakhs). 60 similar items connected with Gandhiji were auctioned yesterday.
There was not even a representative of the government of India. There are certain issues which come to the mind of every Indian, in this connection. No. 1, how these historical mementos of the Father of the Nation have reached the auction house? No.2, whether these have been looted or purchased by the auction house? No.3, whether the government was aware of the auction and if so, what it has done for getting it back to the country? No.4, Whether the government of India considers that these are part of the National Heritage and part of the Independence movement? No.5, Whether the government at lease now take any action to bring it to the country in honour of the Mahatma.
It seems that the government is least concerned on all these issues. Its Archeological Survey of India is interested in digging to find out gold as per the dream of a so called saint. The Government purchases helicopters with out any limit for its VVIPs, auctions spectrum etc. losing lakhs of crores of rupees for the country. But it don’d find time and money to bring back its own historical mementos. And why the government is not demanding the Government of Britain to return these and many other historical artefacts and treasures looted by them when India was being ruled by them.
The government has to answer these questions.
06 Wednesday Nov 2013
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New Delhi, Nov 5 :Legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar, who is retiring this month, is the country’s wealthiest cricket player with a personal fortune of USD 160 million, according to a Wealth-X estimate.
“Tendulkar has amassed a fortune that eclipses the combined net worth of the four other cricketers on the list, and is more than three times the net worth of the next wealthiest player, Mahendra Singh Dhoni,” Wealth-X said.
The list of top five wealthiest cricket players, compiled
by Wealth-X, was headed by Tendulkar with USD 160 million,
followed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni (USD 50 million), Yuvraj
Singh (USD 30 million), Rahul Dravid (USD 20 million) and
Virat Kohli (USD 15 million).
According to Wealth-X, a global wealth intelligence and
prospecting company, the wealth of Tendulkar “eclipses” the
combined fortunes of others on the list.
The 40-year-old former India captain, who stepped down
from one-day internationals in December, 2012, would end his
career with his final and 200th test match against West Indies in late November.
Tendulkar played his final Twenty20 match in the
Champions League T20 final between his Mumbai Indians team and the Rajasthan Royals side led by another former Indian
skipper, Rahul Dravid, who made his last competitive
appearance on the cricket field during that match.
“Tendulkar is popular across the world, and in 1992
became the first overseas player to sign for Yorkshire,
scoring more than 1,000 runs in the Summer”
03 Sunday Nov 2013
Yesterday and today, the whole of india celebrated Deepavali/ Diwali with the joy of light. The Lights and the Sounds of crackers are every where.
And the next crackers that are going to explode are in the 5 states, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Mizoram where the elections are going to take place. It is a Mini General election, which is being looked anxiously and with fear by the main political parties.
Crackers are sure to explode, but from which corner, which side?
03 Sunday Nov 2013
The Resolution Adopted at the
Convention for People’s Unity and Against Communalism held on
October 30, 2013 at New Delhi is reproduced below. The massive Convention was attended by several secular parties as also thinkers and social activists. The initiative for holding the Convention was taken by CPI(M) and other Left Parties.
India is a country with various religions, languages, castes and cultures. But there is an underlying unity in the diversity. A unity, which is based on the unity of the people, which makes us all Indians.
This unity of the people and the country is under threat from the communal forces. While the people of India, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians and many others fought together for independence, the communal ideology and communal organisations stayed away and instead sought to divide the people. The people rejected the communal ideology and India became a secular democratic republic.
At present, the communal forces are once again seeking to raise communal issues and create communal tensions. In the light of the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, the communal campaign has been intensified. This has resulted in outbreak of communal incidents in various parts of the country. The riots in Muzaffarnagar are the most glaring example.
It is necessary for the secular and democratic forces to unitedly counter the communal forces of all varieties and maintain people’s unity.
This Convention calls upon the secular and democratic forces to strengthen their efforts amongst the people and mobilize them for rebuffing the communal forces, preserve communal amity, defend our composite culture and strengthen the unity of the people.
03 Sunday Nov 2013
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My Best Wishes for a Happy Deepavali/Diwali to all our Friends, Comrades and Well-Wishers!
24 Thursday Oct 2013
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NEW DELHI: Energy tycoon and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani is India’s richest man with personal assets of $ 18.9 billion, a report says.
According to the China-based Hurun India Rich List, Ambani retained the top position for the second year even after a wealth decrease of 2 per cent.
23 Wednesday Oct 2013
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The United Nations Organisation (UNO) came in to being on 24th October 1945, 68 years back. It was formed by the five major powers US, Britain, USSR, China and France with support of another 46 nations.
It was immediately after the II World War, that the UNO was formed. This war was the most fierce war so far, which took away the lives of crores of military and common people. In the end of the war, US dropped the Atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki destroying these two cities entirely with the people.
UNO was formed to maintain international peace and promote co-operation in solving international economic, social and humanitarian problems.UNO have many subsidiary organisations.
During the last many years, especially after the collapse of the USSR, there is the opinion that UN is being unduly pressurised by the US for taking certain decisions which actually crate conflicts in the world. The UN was not able to stop the Afghan, Iraq, Libya wars by the US. However, UN is the only organisation, which can do something to save peace in the world at present. It should be strengthened and converted in to a strong organisation capable of maintaining world peace.
22 Tuesday Oct 2013
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Ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, an anti-communal formation is on the anvil with several political parties, including regional and Left, joining forces to fight the communal menace at a national convention on 30th October at New Delhi.
Four Left parties have united with AIADMK, JD(U), SP, BJD, NCP, JD(S), Naga People’s Front, Sikkim Democratic Front, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha and RPI (Prakash Ambedkar) to participate in the October 30 ‘Convention Against Communalism and For Unity of People’, JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav and CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said.
(Courtesy: Indian Express)
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